Vladimir Putin has sent a frigate into the English Channel to guard a shadow fleet believed to be carrying weapons.
The Admiral Grigorovich warship is escorting three Russian ships off the south coast in spite of Keir Starmer‘s threats to use force to seize sanctioned ships from Moscow.
The frigate is guarding the Sparta, the General Skobelev and the Akademik Pashin off the south coast.
The Sparta, a 415ft ship linked to military equipment transported to Syria, entered the Channel near Dover on Thursday morning and is said to be heading towards Port Said in Egypt.
It was sanctioned by the US in May 2022 after
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